A schoole for young souldiers containing in briefe the whole discipline of vvarre, especially so much as is meet for the captaine to teach, or the souldior to learne, that is, to trayne or to be trayned. Fit to be taught throughout England. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A06963 of text S121264 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 17387). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 9 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A06963 STC 17387 ESTC S121264 99856449 99856449 21999 2248505436

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A06963) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 21999) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 814:08) A schoole for young souldiers containing in briefe the whole discipline of vvarre, especially so much as is meet for the captaine to teach, or the souldior to learne, that is, to trayne or to be trayned. Fit to be taught throughout England. Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, attributed name. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed for Richard Higginbotham, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Cardnals hat without Newgate, London : 1616. Attributed to Gervase Markham. Reproduction of the original in British Library. Date altered to 1618 in British Library mss-cf. STC. eng Military art and science -- Early works to 1800. eebo A schoole for young souldiers, containing in briefe the whole discipline of vvarre, especially so much as is meet for the captaine to teach, or the so [no entry] 1616 1 1273 1 0 0 0 0 0 7.86 B The rate of 7.86 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-04 Sampled and proofread 2010-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Schoole for young Souldiers , Containing in briefe the whole Discipline of Warre , especially so much as is meet for the Captaine to teach , or the Souldior to learne , that is , to trayne or to be trayned . Fit to be taught throughout England .

Reader for thy better direction obserue the course of the figures as they stand in order .

To Captaines are referred two things . 1 Sorting of armes which should be 2 Halfe pikes And halfe shot : And the shot , Halfe Muskets , Halfe harquebusses . Or two partes muskets , and one part harquebus ; The men for the weapons , 3 Strongest for pikes , Squarest for muskets , Nimblest for harquebus . The armours they shall weare shall be these following . 4 For the pike , a morian , curaces , gorget , pouldron , taces , sword , girdle , hanger and pike , The musket , a morian , bandileir , sword , girdle , hanger , bullet , bagge and rest , The harquebus , a morian bandilier , sword , girdle , hanger , and bullet bagge : Postures of the Pike . 15 9 order your pike , Aduance your pike , Set downe your pike Shoulder your pike , Leuell your pike , Slope your pike , Port your pike , Charge your pike , Check your pike , Traile your pike , Charge against the right foote and draw your sword , Charge your pike , backeward . Right to your first order , Lay down your pike , Take vp your pike . 5 Formes of trayning diuiding euery company into 6 Squadrons Files Fellowships : and then teaching 7 Cariage of armes , which must be , 8 Most comely , euery seuerall weapon , learning these Postures following . 10 Vse of armes , which must be the 11 Vse of the pike , in receiuing or giuing a charge , the first being pike against horse , the second , pike against pike ; vse of shot , is how to present his piece , take his leuell , and giue his volee . 12 March , in which 13 Euery man shall obserue his Leader , and them of each hand , mouing as they moue : 14 Motion is mouing 15 Without marching 16 As turning on any hand , 17 Changing of place , 18 As doubling of rankes or Files . 19 All mouing , yet none marching , as 20 Opening or closing of Ranks or Files . Postures of the Musket . 40 March with the Musket-rest in the right hand . March , and with the Musket carry the rest . Sinke your rest , and vnshoulder your musket . Hold vp your musket with the right hand , & let it sinke in the left : In the left hand hold your musket , and carry your rest with it . Into the right hand take your match : Hold well your match between your fingers , and blow it : Cocke your match , Try your match : Blowe your match , and open your panne : Hold vp your musket , and present : giue fire , Take down your musket , and cary it with the rest : Vncocke your match , Ioyne your match againe betweene your fingers , Blowe your pan : Proine your panne , Shut your panne : Cast off your panne , Blow off your panne : Cast about your musket : Traile your rest : Open your charges : Charge your musket : Your scowring sticke draw out : Take your scowring sticke shorter : Ramme your powder , Your scowring sticke draw out , Take your scowring sticke shorter : Put vp your scowring sticke home ; Bring forward your musket with the left hand , Hold vp your musket with the right hand , & recouer your rest : Shoulder your Musket , March and carry the Rest with it . Vnshoulder your Musket : Lay your Musket in the Rest : Hold your Musket on the rest , Hold your Musket in the Rest , and with the left hand only balance . Take your match into the right hand : Guard your panne , and stand readie . Postures of the Harquebuse . 42 Shoulder your piece and march : Vnshoulder your piece : With the right hand hold it vp : In the left hand take the piece : In the right hand take the match : Hold well your match and blowe it : Cocke your match : Trie your match : Blowe your match : Open your panne : Present your piece : Giue fire : Take downe the piece , and in the left hand hold it : Vncocke your match ; Ioyne it againe twixt your fingers : Blowe your panne : Proyne your panne : Shut your panne : Shake off your panne : Blowe off your loose cornes : Turne about your piece : To your left side let it sinke : Open your charges : Charge your peice : Your scowring sticke drawe out : Take your scowring sticke shorter : Ram your powder : Your scowring sticke drawe out : Take your scowring sticke shorter : Put vp your scowring sticke home : With the left hand , bring forward the piece : With the right hand hold it vp : Shoulder your piece : Hold your piece well on your shoulder , and march : Vnshoulder your piece : In the left hand let it sinke : With the left hand alone holde the piece : In the right hand take the match : Cocke your match : Trie your march : Blowe off your match : Guard your panne and stand ready . 21 Sounds of the drumme , which is to know , 22 A march , A troope , A charge , A retreit , A call , The watch , going to the mine ,
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23 Words of direction , which are , 24 Leaders , stand forward with your Files , Rankes , open forward , 5 paces : Faces to the right hand , Faces to the left hand , Faces about : turne , Open your Files , Close your Files , Open your files to the right hand , Open your files to the left hand ; Close your files to the right hand , Close your files to the left hand ; Double your file to the right hand Double your file to the left hand . double your ranks to the right hand Double your ranks to the left hand As you were : Rancks from behinde close : Ranckes open backward , paces 5. Files on the right hand turne : Rankes on the right hand turne Front passe thorow , Followers passe thorow , Front as you were , Files as you were , Counter-march to the right hand , Counter-march to the left hand ; Cast off your files to the right hand . Cast off your files to the left hand . double your front to the right hand Double your front to the left hand Double your rear to the right hand . Double your reare to the left hand
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LONDON Printed for Richard Higginbotham , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Cardnals hat without Newgate . 161● .